oh the lottery isn't fictional – we're executing on the plan as stated! 

i was referring to the big growth in MAUs that started before July 2022 and peaked before January 2023.

why did MAUs spike in Q2 2022? something around FTX?

https://flightfromperfection.com/postrat-philanthropy.html 

relatedly how paths towards realizing the Long Reflection are most likely totalitarian

Peter Thiel touches on this point in a recent interview where he argues against Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis. 

Positive knock-on effects from funding animal welfare are likely far greater than from funding global health on the present margin. 

ACE isn't fucking around. 

Zvi's take on this is good: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/book-review-going-infinite 

There's a new paper on jhana (in Cerebral Cortex) out of Matthew Sacchet's Harvard Center: Fu Zun Yang et al. 2023 

Got it, thanks. I'm interested in the cattle analysis because cows yield ~4x more meat than pigs per slaughter, and could perform even better than that when factoring in cognition.